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Declaration Of Independence Dbq

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On July 4th, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress. This document stated the independence of the new nation, The United States of America. After the battle of Lexington and Concord the colonists started to show their wants and needs to separate from England. Parliament decided to pass the Stamp Act which is, ¨a taxation measure designed to raise revenues for a standing British army in America.¨ The main statement of this Act was ¨no taxation without representation.¨ The colonists were angry at England because they could not vote for members of Parliament and no colonists were members of Parliament either. They thought this was very unfair treatment and they wanted to go against it. Parliament also said that the colonies could not trade anything with anyone but England and this fired them up even more. They wanted the freedom to trade with who they wanted to trade with instead of only being able to trade with one country, England. Of course when they got made it started a huge cry and that the colonists should not be taxed unless their own representatives approved the taxes. This is when the ¨no taxation without representation¨ began. …show more content…

They found many documents along with the different countries governments, and philosophers ideas. One of the documents that we borrowed was the Magna Carta. The Magna Carta is a ¨charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215 at Runnymede.” It is also a ¨document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges.¨ Another document that we used was the English Bill of Rights. This was passed on December 16, 1689 by the Parliament of England. ¨The Bill creates separation of powers, limits the powers of the king and queen, enhances the democratic election and bolsters freedom of

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